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Captain Andrew, or the Man and his Man, and there 

 they still remain in the Atlantic waves, fit emblems of 

 their namesakes and their still living inventions. The 



CAPTAIN DICK AND CAPTAIN ANDKEW, on THE MAN AND HIS MAN. [W. J. Welch.] 



stir made by those expansive trials led to the experiment 

 in the ' Echo,' of which Mr. Henwood l thus speaks : 



" Captain William King, K.N., Superintendent of the Packet 

 Station at Falmouth, attempted to impress on Viscount Mel- 

 ville, then First Lord of the Admiralty, the advantage of using 

 high-pressure steam expansively in the Koyal Navy, to whom 

 Lord Melville replied that he had been taught by his friend, 

 the late Mr. Kennie, that the danger attending such a course 

 was very great, and that it would be difficult, if not impossible, 

 to persuade him to the contrary." 



Twenty-five years of precept and example caused the 

 Admiralty to follow suit, and to request Mr. Ward, a 

 Cornish engineer, to construct boilers and expansive 

 valves for the Government steamboat 'Echo/ The 

 writer was entrusted with fixing the machinery in the 



1 Residing at IViixancc, 1871. 



